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The only good thing about this is the guys responsible for this mess is who has to deal with it.

https://dolphinswire.usatoday.com/2025/01/06/dolphins-free-agents-2025-jevon-holland-calais-campbell/

The Miami Dolphins loaded up on players with one-year contracts in the 2024 offseason and that means the team has a ton of players set to hit free agency in March.

Without much cap space to work with, the Dolphins may not be able to keep many of those players. Here’s the full list of Miami players with expiring contracts:

QB Tyler Huntley (unrestricted)
RB Jeff Wilson Jr. (unrestricted)
WR Braxton Berrios (unrestricted)
WR River Cracraft (unrestricted)
WR Dee Eskridge (unrestricted)
WR Anthony Schwartz (restricted)
WR Grant DuBose (exclusive rights)
TE Jack Stoll (unrestricted)
OL Isaiah Wynn (unrestricted)
OL Robert Jones (unrestricted)
OL Liam Eichenberg (unrestricted)
OL Kendall Lamm (unrestricted)
OL Jackson Carman (unrestricted)
OL Kion Smith (exclusive rights)
DL Calais Campbell (unrestricted)
DL Benito Jones (unrestricted)
DL Matt Dickerson (unrestricted)
DL Da’Shawn Hand (unrestricted)
OLB Emmanuel Ogbah (unrestricted)
OLB Tyus Bowser (unrestricted)
OLB Quinton Bell (restricted)
OLB Cameron Goode (exclusive rights)
LB Anthony Walker Jr. (unrestricted)
LB Tyrel Dodson (unrestricted)
LB Duke Riley (unrestricted)
LB Cam Brown (unrestricted)
CB Siran Neal (unrestricted)
CB Kader Kohou (restricted)
S Jevón Holland (unrestricted)
S Jordan Poyer (unrestricted)
S Elijah Campbell (unrestricted)
LS Jack McQuaide (unrestricted)

Teams have until March 4 to use the franchise or transition tags to keep players. The only candidate who makes any sense for the Dolphins is Holland, although the price tag — which is projected to be around $20 million for safeties — could scare Miami away.

After that, the legal tampering period will begin March 10 with free agency officially starting on March 12.

i doubt miami keeps Holland, he's not a top tier safety

I think  they are at a point where they can't afford him. He needed to be signed a year ago or maybe even longer. Now we are looking for cheap help. Not sure how that's supposed to work out for us unless we draft starters and that rarely happens.

I don't think we can afford Holland, I don't think we can afford to franchise him either. He's likely to be another 1st-3rd round pick from our rebuild walking out on the team because we're broke.

Kohu will be an interesting one - if he gets enough interest and offers elsewhere, we may not be able to afford to keep him either.  :'(

Of these the only ones that I think would hurt if we lost them. Other than these 6 we could lose them all and not a big deal in my opinion. Even losing a few of these 6 wouldn't be that bad.

WR River Cracraft (unrestricted)
DL Calais Campbell (unrestricted)
OLB Emmanuel Ogbah (unrestricted)
CB Kader Kohou (restricted)
S Jevón Holland (unrestricted)
S Elijah Campbell (unrestricted)

I don't think we'd be super lost without Cracraft.   He's a special teams guy mostly, right?  Whenever I see him catch a pass, I'm almost mad about it, since we have so many other explosive players that could be getting the ball.  He's like...what?  6th option?

i don't think there's a snowballs chance in hell we keep holland

I think we was the Dolphins 3rd or 4th best WR. What 5 WR's would you have over him? Other than Waddle and Hill, maybe Washington. Maybe I'm forgetting someone who was on IR or something?

Not 6th best receiver....6th best option.

Hilll, Waddle, Achane, Jonnu, ...then maybe Washington or Mostert.

I think Cracraft is now well behind Washington in the pecking order now, and you could probably throw in Berrios (if fit, and he's also unrestricted). With those two guys, they're now primarily depth/special teams players where we can't pay much for them, and if another team is willing to we just have to let them go.

Wynn is one I'd keep on for another year. Yes it was a long time before he hit the field again, but when he did it was clearly a level above the rest of the interior linemen. At worst he will provide great depth and experience for (hopefully) new players coming into the OL.

Luckily this year's draft is deep with defensive backs, especially safeties.

We're going to need every bit of that luck if we also lose Kohu as well in the offseason.

We could well be looking at a complete overhaul of the entire defensive secondary within the next 12-24 months  :( 

Well in that case I think he's still a valuable asset to the team and not just a special teams player. I'm not saying we can't do without him, there's really nobody on that list that we can't do without, but he would be missed. Most of the guys on that list would not be missed if they left in free agency.

I think you're undervalueing depth/special teams especially with the injury history of the Dolphins and the NFL in general.

Early Forecast for 2025 Dolphins UFAs
The Miami Dolphins have 27 players scheduled to become UFAs in March, but they likely will be bringing back several of them

https://www.si.com/nfl/dolphins/news/early-forecast-for-2025-dolphins-ufas-01jhjz5vy1pj

Dolphins are going to have a hard time outbidding any team who wants one of them

^^^ On paper now I would agree for now but I also know they use voodoo to rework these high numbers to give themselves plenty of room to work. It just really depends on what they want to do.